Donald Duck was forever doing battle with dehumanising technology, from robot butlers to mechanical barbers.

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Inside one of the needle's heads is the Disney character Donald Duck.

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The book on the city is that Donald Duck is our comptroller.

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Sometimes called the first Pop painting, although not publicly exhibited until 1982, it shows Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse fishing on a dock.

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He treated Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as abstract colors and shapes, deliberately ignoring the characters that those forms were intended to represent.

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Among them were three early watercolors, two signed cards, two handmade cards, two sketches--of Donald Duck and Goofy, made when Kurt was 6--and a handwritten note.

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His most popular characters, the doggedly determined Mickey Mouse and the libidinous Donald Duck, represented the ordinary man's ability to triumph over any adversity, even a Great Depression.

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For example, there's a scene in the Only Make Believe show where Donald Duck's pushy manager and sibling Derek Duck, played by actor Dax Valdes, strong-arms the animal sounds store merchant (Saluda Camp) to produce a new quack for his boss.

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So next time Donald Duck traps the thugs, or 007 eliminates the villain, we should also allow ourselves to feel a slight sense of grief and sympathy for the ugly crooks, who might have achieved so much more in life had mother nature made them just that little bit more pleasing to our eye.

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Bass guitarist Donald "Duck" Dunn, who played with Booker T and the MGs, has died in Tokyo aged 70.

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